Rainforest People

Most live
their traditional
tribal lifestyle hunting and
gathering, some have started growing vegetables and visit nearby towns
to buy some supplies.

They all have a great
knowledge about
rainforests
and because they depend on it, they are instinctive conservationists.
The traditional lifestyle of these people is threatened by rainforest
destruction.

Rainforest People of Africa:
Central and Western Africa
In African
rainforests,
the most famous tribal people are Pygmies, who
live in the deep jungles of central and western Africa. Other central
and western African tribal people include Baka, Balengue, Benga, Bubi,
Combe, Duala, Beti-Pahuin, and Ogoni people.

Rainforest
People of New Guinea
(Melanesia)
With hundreds of different tribes and clans, New Guinea is the
number one country (Papua
New Guinea and the
Indonesian province of West Papua) in
the world when it comes to number of languages and variety of tribal
cultures. It is one of the few countries in the world where tribal
people still are the majority of population. It is also the
country where cannibalism was still practiced until 1973.

Indidgenous
People of Australia
There are two kinds of indigenous people in Australia:
Australian
Aboriginal people, and Torres Strait Islanders. Australian
Aboriginal
People used to belong to hundreds of different clans and
spoke at least
300
different languages. Although large parts of Australia used to be
covered in rainforests, only pockets remain today, the largest being
the tropical rainforests of north Queensland, known for Tjapukai
Aboriginal People.

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